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The silver sunbeam : a practical and theoretical text-book on sun drawing and photographic printing: comprehending all the wet and dry processes at present known, with collodion, albumen, gelatin, wax, resin and silver; as [sic] also heliographic engraving, photolithography, photozincography, celestial photography, photography in natural colors, tinting and coloring of photographs, printing in various colors, the carbon process, the card-picture, the vignette, and stereography (1864)

Author: Towler, John, 1811-1889
Subject: Photography; Photography; Photographic chemistry; Photography
Publisher: New York : J. H. Ladd
Possible copyright status: NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT
Language: English
Call number: b17556454
Digitizing sponsor: Ontario Council of University Libraries and Member Libraries
Book contributor: Ryerson University Library Special Collections
Collection: ryersonuniversity; toronto
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"Second thousand"--t.p

Includes index

Prime source of information about photographic technology in the formulative years between 1839-1863. Includes recipes for various photographic processes. Also includes 22 p. advertisements for photographic equipment, materials and publications at the end

From the collection of Nicholas M. & Marilyn A. Graver

Bound in green cloth, embossed, with spine printed in gold lettering (worn). Cover is also worn

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